MEN’S FASHIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 3

MEN’S FASHIONS.

NEW STYLE FOR WAISTCOATS. BACK TO THE FLOWERY DAYS. LONDON, Feb. 26. Waistcoats cut straight across at Urn waist, double-breasted, anil low at tho neck, will, become increasingly popular during the New Year, according to a tailoring authority. Great-great Uncle Timothy, a bit of a dandy in the eighteen-forties and fifties, little thought when, for the last time, lie. folded his nankeen smalls and flowered waistcoat without points that his 'siiceossor of 1926 would succumb to the lure of the fashion in which he thought himself “no small beer,” and call on the modern tailor to make him a waistcoat that should convey a suggestion of yesterday while conforming to the elegance of to-day. The utility waistcoat, with its four capacious pockets for male odds and ends, may soon bo relegated to the limbo of things forgotten, ousted from popularity by a waistcoat which is short and tight-fitting, and aims to reproduce the grace of lino famous in the clothes of the early eighteen-hundreds. Morning dress, with butterfly bow and white spats, suggests an almost complete return to the old-time fashion when the new waistcoat is worn ; and an atmosphere of stage coaches, Sir. Roger dc Coverlcy, and the courtesies of yesteryear, is created by tho old style re-born. “The new waistcoat is becoming more popular for day wear,” said a tailor, “II is to bo the fashion of the future as it was the fashion of the past. It is not mere dandyism; it was, and still is, worn with evening dross, anil men of taste are adopting it i'or lounge suits and morning dress.”